"The reality of conflict is not there," Dr. Zerhouni said in an interview after the hearing.
Carr contrasts this idea with the reality of conflict of interests.
This paper argues that the gap between humanitarians' promises of justice ('Remarks at the launch of the international protocol' 2014) and the lived reality of conflict-affected populations including that of victims/survivors of sexual violence is partly due to current (mis)understandings of sexual violence in armed conflict.
Yet the gap between the goodwill and the reality of conflict is as massive as it has ever been.
When confronted with the heart wrenching reality of conflict there are some individuals who, in their search for understanding, want more than the comforting truths provided by national, cultural or familial bonds.
When British soldiers killed 14 civil rights protesters in cold blood in 1972, McGuinness was already the second in command in the city at the age of just 21. "McGuinness' conversion from IRA leader to peacemaker was hardly damascene – it was both an acceptance of the reality of conflict and a vindication of his goals".
His death, like all combatant and civilian casualties, are the agonizing, traumatic realities of conflicts.
Sharon Rab, the founder of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation, said Ms. Brooks "reveals to her readers what their political leaders try to hide — the ugly realities of conflict and its destructive effects even on those far from the frontlines".
The legacy of the political settlement in Ireland that followed the defeat at Aughrim thus had a strongly sectarian and colonial cast that, when coupled with the grim Irish realities of conflict and poverty, would later trouble the writings of Edmund Burke.
While Brady's revelatory civil war images documented the faces and realities of conflict, Carleton Watkins and Eadweard Muybridge produced stunning images of Yosemite National Park by lugging mammoth wet-plate cameras high into the mountains, and Julia Margaret Cameron created ethereal shots which promoted photography as an art form.
